Ms. Sun Shan

Board Chair

Co-founder of Shan Shui Conservation Center. She also founded the Green Life Society, the first environmental group at her alma mater Peking University. She received her Master's degree in Environmental Studies and Public Policy from George Mason University in 1999 and spent five years studying bio-medicine and wildlife genetics. In 2002, she launched the CI China Program with Lu Zhi and has since been working to administer 6.5 million US dollars of the Critical Ecosystem Partner Fund in the Mountains of Southwest China. In 2010 she helped create LEAD & Beyond, a fellowship program designed to promote leadership for sustainable development.

Ms. Lu Zhi

Board Member

Professor of PKU School of Life Sciences; executive director of PKU Center for Nature and Society; cofounder of Shan Shui Conservation Center; vice president of China Women Scientists Association; president of a global snow leopard conservation network. She is dedicated to long-term studies of the giant panda, snow leopard and other flagship species in the Mountains of Southwest China and on the Tibetan Plateau as well as studies of interspecific interactions and trophic cascades in Sanjiangyuan, a well-preserved grassland ecosystem. She has extended her attention to interactions between ecosystems and human socioeconomic systems and the effects of various policies and conservation practices on the ecosystems.

Mr. Xu Jintao

Board Member

Distinguished Professor in the Peking University Yabo Recruitment Program; vice dean of PKU National School of Development; director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research; doctoral supervisor of PKU College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering; Executive Director and Deputy Chair of China Forestry Economics Society (CFES). His interests of study include resource economics, climate change and pollution control policies for industrial companies.

Mr. Yang Rui

Board Member

Mr. Yang is a professor with the Tsinghua Department of Landscape Architecture, which he co-founded and leads. He also heads Tsinghua University National Park Research Institute. Mr. Yang earned his Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Engineering (Urban Planning and Design) and Doctor of Engineering (Landscape Architecture) from Tsinghua University. He is also a GSD visiting scholar at Harvard University.

Ms Shi Xiangying

Board Member

Executive director of Shan Shui Conservation Center, PhD at School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Peking University. She received her undergraduate degree in Development Economics from the School of Economics of Peking University and master's degree in Environmental Science from the Yale College of Forests and the Environment. She has been engaged in ecological and climate change economics research, community conservation work and organization management since 2013.